The Hope pioneer., 1887-08-19
EVENTS OFTHE WEEK.
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The rains which came on the 9th and 10th,
drouth that was existing in Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa and Illinois and quenched
many forest and prairie fires The damage
done by the fires and the drying up Of pas
lures and destroying crops, amounts in the
aggregate to vast sum and the coming
winter forbodes destitution and suffering in
many sections; The scarcity of water has
been a painful feature of the situation and
the distress Of cattle has been very great.
At some places water sold readily at 5 cents
pail. For the present, at least, the worst
has passed.
A colored woman named Anna Watkins
apparently died at Paducah, KY, on Satur-
day, and was prepared for the grave, and
all arrangements for the funeral made. AS
the neiggbors were gathering for the sad
body by sitting up IL her coffin. The as
sembled darkies fled in wild confusion, and
refused to return. Some white women
| went to the house and assisted her, and
participate in the emancipation celebration
Monday. -
A dispatch from Columbia, South Caro-
lima, says that full one half the rice crop of
the state has been lost by tho freshets of the
last ten days. Thousands of acres on the
Carolina side of the Carolina river are al
most totally destroyed, some of the land
being under water for the third this season
the same is true on the Savannah and
Ogeechee rivers and the great fields on the
A1tamaha are threatened but not yet lost.
The Phenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn, N. Y, capital 100000, has
been required by the State Superintendent
of Insurance to call on its stockholders to
| make good an impairment of its capital
| amounting to $500, 900, or reduce its capital
company decides to reduce it's capital stock
| by one-haf
The imports of dry goods at the port of
New York last week amounted to 1855, ,339,
| of which $1,S52,S13 were entered for con-
sumption and S745, 1896 were warehoused.
The amount withdrawn from warehouses
for the week was 1924, ,167, making the total
| amount thrown on the market So, ,4S0,010.
Indignant citizens of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
caused the arrest of the Mayor Of the city
and the 10 council men for neglect of all
sanitary provisions for the health and
cleanliness of the city, the whole town being
infected with q mass of filth unprecedented
and unbearable
At Detroit Mich, Sam Woo, Chinese
4duuu1 J Iudu OIouSAC SuII 1OI AlDe1 III Gut
United States court against the Free Press,
| claiming 10000 damages. He alleges that
the Free Press falsely stated that he fought
sparrows in his establishment.
At Marshfeld, Athens Co., Ohio, Louis
Schmitt, known as "Rough on Rats''
Schmitt, aged SO, committed suicide Mon
day afternoon by shooting himself in the
forehead. This was his eighth attempt on
his life.
Ohio still remains an October State, as to
election of State officers in off years, when
there are no congressman to elect. The
Republicans open their state campaign at
Caldwell, Sept. z, with Gov. Foraker.
A daily stage line is now in operation
between Thompson's Falls, Mont, a station
on the Northern Pacific, to Murray, Idaho,
passing through the Ceur d. Alene mining
district.
The distillers' and wholesale liquor deal
ers' national protective association have
issued call for a national convention at
Cincinnati Sept. 13 next.
Prof. King successfully crossed the
Niagara river on a water bicycle, this week.
The Rocky Mountain locust is destroying
crops in the Northwest Territory.